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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 15 



hives, for it is specially well adapted to use 

 with any Langstroth eight or ten frame 

 hive. The Ferris is based on the combina- 

 tion of a hive and system. 



The dandelion is unusually profuse in our 

 locality. While it is in a sense a bee-plant, 

 it is a real pest on our lawns. We never 

 saw so much yellow on our lawns as now. 



This promises to be an exceptionally fa- 

 vorable fruit-blooming season. The pecul- 

 iar spring held back the trees until warm 

 balmy weather, and the bees are reveling 

 on honey and pollen in a way they have not 

 done before for years. 



Mr. W. K. Morrison, well known to our 

 readers, formerly of Bermuda, then of Bar- 

 bados, Trinidad, South America, Porto Rico, 

 and now of New York city, is visiting us at 

 the present time. No man among modern 

 bee-keepers knows more about bee-keepers 

 in the tropics than does he. 



The remains of Mrs. Lucinda Harrison, 

 who used to write for the columns of 

 Gleanings, have been brought back to her 

 home in Peoria, 111. They have been laid to 

 rest by the side of her husband. Mrs. Har- 

 rison had a bright and sparkling way of 

 writing that interested as well as instructed. 



For a number of years bee-yards in the 

 neighborhood of the big smelting-works in 

 and about Denver have suffered considerable 

 damage by reason of the sulphurous smoke 

 killing the vegetation for miles around. I 

 have just seen by the papers that three of 

 the big smelting companies have paid to the 

 local bee-keepers the sum of $1500 apiece. 

 Perhaps some of our subscribers in the vi- 

 cinity can give us the actual facts. 



langstroth. 

 We have received a poem from the poet 

 laureate of beedom, Eugene Secor, of For- 

 est City, la., entitled "Langstroth." This 

 we hope to place before our readers soon. 

 Perhaps no man in all beedom was more re- 

 viled, and suffered more from mud- flinging, 

 than that great and good man at a time 

 when he was giving to bee keeping an impe- 

 tus forvpard, the like of which no other man 

 ever gave. 



fertilizing QfJEENS IN A MAMMOTH TENT 



CONSTRUCTED AFTER THE DESIGNS OF 



MR. J. S. DAVITT, OF ARAGON, GA. 



Mr. C. M. Church, of Arnold, Pa., is al- 

 ready constructing a mammoth mating-tent 

 for mating queens in confinement on the 

 plan laid down by Mr. J. S. Davitt, which 

 he described in the Bee-keepers' Review for 

 1901, and which was given later in these 

 columns. Mr. Church feels very enthusi- 

 astic about the success of the exj)eriment. 

 So sure is he that it will work he is willing 

 to stand the investment. This will be test- 

 ed during the coming season, and it is need- 



less to say that we have made arrangements 

 with Mr. Church to give the results of his 

 experiment in these columns, whether it is 

 a success or failure. 



If the thing works out well, Mr. Church 

 will deserve the thanks of the bee-keeping 

 fraternity at large, because it will then be 

 possible to mate queens to hand picked 

 drones, and inbreed— something that is im- 

 practicable at the present time. 



DENATURED ALCOHOL. 



It begins to look now as if the bill to per- 

 mit the manufacture of denatured alcohol 

 free of government tax would go through. 

 Write to your United States Senator, urg- 

 ing his support. 



S^iThis is one of the most important mea- 

 sures ever brought before our national Sen- 

 ate. If it passes, it will mean a cheap light 

 and cheap fuel, and a most powerful com- 

 petitor to gasoline and kerosene. 



A good deal of the cheap unsalable honey, 

 such as honey-dew, could be converted into 

 this new product, denatured alcohol. 



THE FOUL-BROOD LAW OF ONTARIO, CANADA, 

 AMENDED. 



Very meager information comes, to the 

 effect that the foul- brood law of Ontario, 

 Canada— the first legislation that was ever 

 enacted against the disease known as foul 

 brood— has been amended, removing the ap- 

 pointment of the inspector from the Ontario 

 Bee-keepers' Association to the Minister of 

 Agriculture. It is now provided that he 

 may appoint more than one inspector if it 

 appears that one man will not be able to 

 compass the entire province. 



Conflicting reports have come from time 

 to time from Canada, one side alleging that 

 it is simply impossible for one man to go 

 over the entire territory, and the other al- 

 leging that one inspector could do all the 

 work at a considerable saving in expense. 



I know very little about the merits of the 

 controversy; but somehow it rather seems 

 that the Ontario Bee-keepers' Association 

 will know better who is fitted to make in- 

 spections of bees than the Minister of Agri- 

 ture, who probably would know very little 

 about the bee business. But if the Minister 

 will accept the recommendations made by 

 the Ontario Association, or any other ac- 

 credited body of bee-keepers, then there 

 need be no fears entertained that an incom- 

 petent man or men will be appointed to this 

 responsible work. 



DR. C, C, MILLER. 



It is with more than ordinary pleasure 

 that I introduce to our readers Dr. C. C. 

 Miller— see outside cover page. Although 

 we have shown his portrait in our columns 

 before, Mrs. A. I. Root particularly request- 

 ed that we place him in our gallery of ce- 

 lebrities. 



It is scarcely necessary to tell who the 

 doctor is, and what he has done for bee cul- 



